Make your own impact (simulation)

If you always wanted to play around with the scenario of a significant impact on earth, here’s the perfect tool for you. Impact: Earth! allows you to customize object size, density, velocity, angle and even the geology of ground zero. Choose a distance large enough, lean back and see what happens.

Geologists to become shelf-stackers

It is very easy to cause an outcry in the geoscience community – just mix up Callovian and Chattian or misspell Changhsingian or hide the beer. Iain Duncan Smith tried a new way and spoke about geologists and shelf-stackers and the overall importance of the ones and the others. He caused something the Germans would call shitstorm on Twitter and in blogs.